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It's exactly the same set up to jump in the water on one of our home breaks... except the rocks are sharper & gnarlier. Very often, visitors watch us jump in from that rocks & choose to do the same. Some of 'em don't see an important point : we ALWAYS grab our leash before jumping! These poor fellas often get their leash caught up the rocks & get totally smashed by the waves before they understand what happened to them! "Pull of your leaaaaash! Pull of da leaaaaash!"

It's exactly the same set up to jump in the water on one of our home breaks... except the rocks are sharper & gnarlier. Very often, visitors watch us jump in from that rocks & choose to do the same. Some of 'em depict an important point : we ALWAYS grab our leash before jumping! The poor fellas often get their leash caught up the rocks & get totally smashed by the waves before they understand what happened to them! "Pull of your leaaaaash! Pull of da leaaaaash!"

i'm not complaining, i was just stating the fact that it can't have been that cold during the comp coz the fella ain't wearing boots and it seems stupid to premote an event as a 'CWC' when those are the conditions that a large proportion of surfers surf most of the year. i don't give a shit where you live and who surfs the coldest break. next time i'll keep my mouth shut and just go surfing instead. peace.

I grew up in Cornwall surfing and now live in San Francisco which is a 40min drive form steamer lane.. It is bloody freezing here. I have surfed all year round here and January here is ridiculous the north westerly swells bring all of the cold water from Alaska and the antartic. IN the summer we receive a lot of south swells which are caused by big tropicalstorms in the south pacific which pushes up warm water from the tropics which allows you to wear no bootys in the late summer... It's still bloody cold here though

Yeah granted Scotland is cold, especially during last year's comp when the air temp was something like -5, but is this really worthy of a title like cwc...the conditions these guys are surfing in is better than we get for 8/9 months of the year (temp and weather wise).

Believe me pal it is cold, went to Carmel(more south) in June a few years ago, it was colder than the east coast of Scotland.The locals in San Diego told me a 6mm suit was needed for the San Francisco area.

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Not sure if you've brown tongued enough there about the photo and this site. I was going to +1 your comment for being ''shameless'' and having the nerve to post it...but then I changed my mind. And btw it's a great shot, +5 and saved to fav's.